Wednesday, April 26, 2006

In case you haven't seen this mornings news articles, the game company EA has settled its overtime lawsuits...
People working down at EA's Playa Vista studio told me that they get reeaal tired of schlepping in on a weekend so that they're "on hand" if a lead or supervisor needs them.
I've got no idea if this crapola has now totally and finally ended, but maybe managers will at last get it through their heads that working people eighty or a hundred hours a week is, like, counterproductive.
Overtime rates are there as much to enable people to work a 40-hour week and have a life as it is to pour extra money into employees' pockets...

The thoughts and observations of the leaders of The Animation Guild (TAG), Local 839 IATSE. Jason MacLeod is the Business Representative, Laura Hohman is the President. Mike Sauer is Assistant to the Business Representative.

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